“The Secret” is a piece of rubbish

November 27th, 2007 gier Posted in Lame Jokes, Rant | No Comments »

Every now and then, I get people mentioning “The Secret”/Law of Attraction to me. I cannot put into words better than Catherine Bennett of the Guardian newspaper in the UK what I think of it. I reproduce a portion of her article here:

The Secret is not just a moronic hymn to greed and selfishness; it nastily suggests that victims of catastrophe are the authors of their misfortunes. Even Moira Stewart. And anyone who happened to be starved, bombed, or herded into a death camp at the same time as thousands of others. “By the law of attraction,” explains an expert on this law, “they had to be on the same frequency as the event.” Just a twiddle with their personal thought frequencies, and everyone in the cattle trucks could have been attracting friends, high grades, and lovely new cars instead.

Were it that I could be as eloquent as Ms. Bennett.

So, please stop asking me if I’ve read “The Secret” and any other similar pseudoscientific, self-help, spiritually uplifting blethering twaddle.